Hybridity discourse symbolically excluded non-European diasporas from national claims

Evidence

Chetan Bhatt has pointed to the ways in which forms of diaspora nationalism reinforce and reinscribe essentialist and exclusive forms of communal ideology. These movements operate within translocal routeways while strengthening an exclusively Hindu claim to Indian soil. The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a semimartial organization set up in the 1920s, aims to implant Hindu supremacist ideology and encourage physical training among Hindu young men. This project has a specific youth orientated form through the RSS branches or Shakhas that promote Hindu education through storytelling, games, physical activities, and quizzes. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3010 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Claims of national uniqueness are constitutive features of migrant-group status — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 105; The hyphen in hyphenated Jewish identities marks hybridity’s critical potential; European identity discourse masks suppressed fear of non-Europeans (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• Diaspora nationalism can reinforce exclusive and essentialist communal ideologies #complicates (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3010